. The rise and fall of the Paris commune in 1871; with a full account of the bombardment, capture, and burning of the city . thePorte St. Cloud. Everything is abandoned. I have or-dered the torpedo wires to be cut. Half an hour afterwards the firing had ceased along theentire line. Commandant Treves, accompanied by and Captain Garnier, with a body of engineers,returned to Paris. The the 37th and 91stbattalions followed with their troops to secure the positionagainst an offensive return of the insurgents. It wasthen half-past four in the afternoon. Immediately after the
. The rise and fall of the Paris commune in 1871; with a full account of the bombardment, capture, and burning of the city . thePorte St. Cloud. Everything is abandoned. I have or-dered the torpedo wires to be cut. Half an hour afterwards the firing had ceased along theentire line. Commandant Treves, accompanied by and Captain Garnier, with a body of engineers,returned to Paris. The the 37th and 91stbattalions followed with their troops to secure the positionagainst an offensive return of the insurgents. It wasthen half-past four in the afternoon. Immediately after the reception of the above Douay, commanding the Fourth Army Corps,advanced his troops, and occupied strongly the Porte and the Eue du Eempart. He was followed byGeneral Vinoy, commanding the reserve, who entered thesame gate, and took possession of the important positionof Trocadero. In the meantime, General Ladmirault (First ArmyCorps), entering by the gates of Passy and Auteuil, con-tinued along the ramparts, and surprised the insurgentsat the Porte de la Muette, where he took five or six hun-. AS SI Commune of Pans 1871 ASSI IS AEKESTED. 283 dred prisoners. Advancing along the Avenue de laGrande Armee, he took possession of the barricades, driv-ing the insurgents before him, and thus became masterof the Arc de Triomphe, where the tricolor was first dis-played inside the walls. Finally, General de Cissey, commanding the Third ArmyCorps, entered during the night by the gates of Vaugirardand Montrouge, and thus the whole line of ramparts,from Vaugirard to the Porte Dauphine, was in the powerof the Versaillese. General de Cissey proceeded with histroops in the direction of the Champs de Mars, where anenergetic resistance was expected; but the whole move-ment had been so sudden that time was wanted to organ-ize the defence. The Ecole-Militaire was taken possessionof without opposition, the staff of the National Guardhaving quitted the building, in a precipi
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